Prague- The Czech Republic will sent medicines, mainly antibiotics and painkillers, worth one million crowns to China, hit by a massive earthquake on Monday, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Zuzana Opletalova told CTK today.
The medicines will get to China aboard a military plane taking a Czech parliamentary delegation to the country on Sunday.
Lower house deputy head Jan Kasal who will lead the delegation said the MPs are to meet China's agriculture and environment ministers. They will also hand the humanitarian aid to the country
The Czech Republic had offered the immediate dispatch of a special team of rescuing dog handlers to China on Monday after the devastating earthquake that hit its southwestern provinces, but China rejected the offer and showed interest in financial aid to buy drugs and medical needs.
According to the Chinese authorities, the earthquake of the magnitude of almost eight on the Richter scale in the Sichuan province has claimed over 22,000 lives, but the number is widely expected to at least double. Hundred of thousands people were injured, millions have lost their homes.
($1=16.179 crowns)